"Push the button, Max!"
Posted on 02/23/2020 10:50:15 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Daredevil and Flat Earth theorist Michael "Mad Mike" Hughes died Saturday in a rocket crash. Hughes, 64, wanted to prove the Flat Earth theory by taking photographs of the Earth from a homemade rocket.
Saturday's rocket launch was to be featured on the Science Channel, which was chronicling Hughes' attempts to launch himself high enough in a homemade rocket to take pictures of the curvature — or lack thereof as far as Hughes was concerned — of the Earth. This particular launch was only supposed to take Hughes 5,000 feet in the air, according to Discovery.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Hughes' family and friends during this difficult time. It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey," Science Channel said in a statement.
Although police did not positively identify Hughes, San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Public Information Officer Cindy Bachman said Saturday in a statement, "A man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert during a rocket launch event. Medical aid was staged for the launch and was on scene immediately."
Hughes had previously completed a successful launch in March 2018, which sent him 1,800 feet in the air.
"The Flat Earth thing is like everything else to me," Hughes told CBS News in October 2018. "I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11."
At the time, Hughes stated that he built his homemade rocket mostly through, "trial and error," and admitted, "You don't get a lot of second chances, though, in the rocket business."
You nailed it.
Inside a Flat Earth conference. Mad Mike was there. It was interesting that the other FEs were telling him that since he would have to wear a helmet at high altitude to breath, its curved lenze would fool him.
https://www.diyphotography.net/how-nikon-cameras-prove-that-the-earth-is-flat/
"Push the button, Max!"
The Suez Canal ought to give you nightmares as far as curvature goes.
Interesting, eh?
Water does find its own level though, doesn't it.
Captain Cook wrote in his journal about his efforts to circumnavigate Antarctica back in the late 1700s. After sailing 60,000+ miles in the most treacherous of conditions and no end in sight, he gave up. Wikipedia shows the distance around Antarctica at 11,165 miles.
“Are you being intentionally obtuse or do you have a reading comprehension problem?”
If I was I’d change my name to “philman_37”.
The question to ask yourself is...are you indoctrinated?
Right back at ya.
The mere idea that a guy named Flat Earth Mike created a nearly perfect parabolic arc to screw himself into the ground at nearly 200 mph is pure poetry.
I've broken my indoctrination, obviously, or I wouldn't be taking the non-doctrinal side.
Thanks for your confirmation and tacit admission that your suggestion was nothing more than a ploy. (whether or not you meant to do that)
Dead wrong — indoctrination is what you’ve embraced.
Now that's funny! You doggedly hold faith to a certain doctrine that
you have been taught all of the decades of your life (indoctrination)
to believe in and you never question that doctrine.
All the while you belittle/denigrate those who disagree
with said doctrine that you fervently believe and yet
you say I've embraced indoctrination.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
TOO funny.
You're convinced of something that is absurd, and you use all political terms to discuss it -- in a scientific subject, the best similar example to Flat Earth is AGW, or the Sitchin/Twelfth Planet nonsense, or the false claim that the lunar landings were hoaxed; politically, Flat Earth is most similar to veganism, or the abortion cult. It's hilarious that you present yourself as thinking for yourself, when all you do is regurgitate irrelevant and/or inaccurate junk from websites, then claim to not be indoctrinated. You're a joke, just not a good one.
The last of the AGW regurgitators is still around FR, but can no longer pollute the pages of FR with that BS. Given the sometimes odd and very low standards used to give timeouts or outright bans, well, just keep talking.
Columbus’ crew could see the earth’s curvature from a yardarm.
Everyone can.
When a ship on the ocean drops from view along the horizon, it has not submerged, it is obscured by the curve of the earth.
I provided video links, a link to an active treaty, a link to a math website and a link to information on the Suez Canal...82, 106, 109, 111 and 124.
What "junk" do you find in any of those links/websites?
More importantly, why do you feel the need to slander me?
Our eyes are why we can only see a limited distance.
Devices like cameras, telescopes and binoculars can extend the range of human eyesight.
When a ship on the ocean drops from view along the horizon, it has not submerged, it is obscured by the curve of the earth.
A ship drops from sight because of the limits of the human eye.
Surely you've experienced the effects of perspective and the vanishing point somewhere at some point in your life. 
How is it that when you use a pair of binoculars, a zoom camera or a telescope as you see an object "go over the curve" with your naked eye it suddenly comes back into view with the aid of such devices?
Shouldn't the object still be obscured by "the curve"?
One from right here close to home...Shrimp Boat Nikon P900 Zoom Test
Shouldn't all of those objects still be hidden by "the curve" since you can't see them with your naked eye?
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